Hydrophilic acrylic polymer

The ophthalmic applications for plastics lenses include contact lenses which are now made of acrylic plastics. Another material for this application is a special hydrophillic acrylic polymer used in soft contact lenses. These lenses are much more comfortable than rigid contact lenses. 

Fujimura, T., Inoue, M., Furuno, T., Imamura, Y. and Jodai, S. (1993b). Improvement of the durability of wood with acryl-high-polymer V. Adsorption of hydrophilic acrylic polymer onto wood swollen with acetone. Mokuzai Gakkaishi, 39(3), 315-321. 

Sherrington and coworkers161 have examined the chlorination of phenol by J-butyl hypochlorite in the presence of cross-linked polystyrenes substituted by pendant polymethylene chains terminated with anionic or cationic head groups, as well as some hydrophilic acrylic polymers, in four solvents water, methanol, 1,2-dichloroethane and xylene. The polymers exerted a significant influence on the chlorination, particularly in polar solvents. However, no changes in the regioselectivity of the chlorination, in comparison to homogeneous systems, was observed. 

A reversed-phase chromatography technique for the preparative separation of polar compounds has been demonstrated with the separation of a simple nucleoside mixture. A group separation of the 2 -deoxyribonucleoside, nucleotide and nucleobase constituents of normal and modified nucleic acids was achieved by gel permeation chromatography, and further separation was achieved on a hydrophilic acrylate polymer operating in the partition mode. Mononucleotides are selectively bound at low pH to Fe(ni) immobilized on agarose gel due to their free phosphate ester group, and can be recovered with a neutral eluant. Nucleosides and molecules with phosphate diester groups are not retained. ... 

After some time, the partially-reacted outer layer of the polymer film, now containing hydrophilic free carboxylate groups, has little strength and is easily eroded by moving seawater (self-polishing effect), exposing a fresh layer of organotin acrylate polymer... 

Composition Acrylic hydrophilic network polymer, biocompatible... 

A super-hydrophilic absorbing polymer was synthesized from acrylic monomers and chemically crosslinked during the polymerization reaction to optimize barrierdressing properties ... 

High mobility hydrophilic interfacial polymer chain will expand in the aqueous phase and therefore exhibit narrow lines in the NMR spectrum. The N-methylol acrylamide (NMA) in the functionalised butyl acrylate latex showed narrower carbonyl line than that of butyl acrylate [132]. The concentration of these hydrophilic groups is affected by the monomer concentration of NMA and also the timing of the addition of the monomer during the reaction. 

Chemical modification of the epoxy resin includes either attaching hydrophilic groups to the epoxy resin or attaching the epoxy resin to hydrophilic polymers. This is most often done by grafting. For example, one of the largest volume uses for waterborne epoxy is the coating of metal cans. In this application the epoxy resin is rendered water-dispersible by the grafting of the epoxy resins to acrylic polymer. 

In order to overcome the disadvantage of hydrophilic matrices of uncontrollable erosion of the hydrated polymer gel on the tablet surface, a combined polymer-wax carrier material was evaluated by Huang et al. Carnauba wax was combined with the enteric acrylic polymer, Eudragit LlOO, and investigated as a carrier... 

Acrylic acid can be used as comonomer in different copolymers. The most common of these are probably poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) (see Section 6.1, Figure 6.1.7), poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide), and poly(acrylic acid-co-styrene-co-acrylonitrile) or ASA terpolymer. The acrylic acid in the poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) increases the wettability of the polymer. Different salts of poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) are used in the water purification processes as water clarification aid and in drilling fluids. Additional -COOH groups make the polymer even more hydrophilic, and polymers such as poly(acrylic acid-co-maleic acid) are easily water soluble and used as liquid thickeners. 

Superabsorbent polymers should be essentially hydrophilic polymers. Therefore, natural polymers such as starch and cellulose or synthetic polymers such as poly(acrylate), poly(vinyl alcohol), poly(acrylamide), or poly(oxyethylene) are used as hydrophilic base polymers. 

Comparisons of commonly used XAD resins have been published for the isolation of both fulvic acid (Aiken et al., 1979) and humic acid (Cheng, 1977) from water. These resins differ in pore size, surface area, polymer composition, and polarity (Table 5) (Kunin, 1977). As with anion-exchange resins, hydrophobic styrene-divinylbenzene resins (XAD-1, XAD-2, XAD-4) were found more difficult to elute than hydrophilic acrylic-ester resins (Table 6). This is due to hydrophobic interactions, and possible tt-tt interactions with the aromatic resin matrix of styrene-divinylbenzene resins. In addition, ki-... 

Both of the types of polymer mentioned above can be modified by the incorporation of hydrophobic monomers onto the essentially hydrophilic acrylate backbone. The effect of this is to modify their characteristics by giving them so-called associative properties. These hydrophobes can interact or associate with other hydrophobes in the formulation (e.g., surfactants, oils, or hydrophobic particles) and thus build additional structures in the matrix [3-11]. These associative polymers are termed cross-polymers when they are based on carbomer-type chemistry [12] and hydrophobically modified alkali-soluble emulsions (HASEs) when based on ASE technology. 

Li et al. (2008a) introduced solvent-resistant multifunctional PV membranes based on segmented polymer networks (SPNs). Hydrophilic (acrylate)-terminated poly(ethylene oxide) was used as a macromolecular cross-linker of different hydro-phobic polyacrylates for the synthesis of amphiphilic SPNs. Multifunctional canposite membranes with thin SPN top layers were prepared by in situ polymerization. The support consisted of hydrolyzed PAN. These membranes were tested for dehydration of EtOH and isopropyl alcohol. The selectivity of the membranes greatly depended on the composition or the ratio of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic phases of the SPN. 

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